Act 4 — Scene I.[1274]
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Scene I.[1274]
[Enter] Downright and Dame Kitely.
Dow. Well, sister, I tell you true; and you’ll find it so in the end.
Dame K. Alas, brother, what would you have me to do? I cannot help it; you see my brother brings ’em in here; they are his friends. 5
Dow. His friends! his fiends! ’Slud! they do nothing but haunt him up and down like a sort of unlucky spirits, and tempt him to all manner of villainy that can be thought of. Well, by this light, a little thing would make me play 10 the devil with some of ’em: an ’twere not more for your husband’s sake than anything else, I’d make the house too hot for the best on ’em; they should say, and swear, hell were broken loose, ere they went hence. But, by God’s will, ’tis nobody’s fault but yours; for an you had 16 done as you might have done, they should have been parboil’d, and bak’d too, every mother’s son, ere they should ha’ come in, e’er a one of ’em. 20
Dame K. God’s my life! did you ever hear the like? What a strange man is this! Could I keep out all them, think you? I should put myself against half a dozen men, should I? Good faith, you’d mad the patient’st body in the 25 world, to hear you talk so, without any sense or reason.